Once Broken Faith Quotes

“Never invite a death omen to a murder party.”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“Anyone who says the past was perfect is a liar and wasn’t there. Everything that thinks can aspire, and everything that aspires wants something better than what they’ve left behind them.”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“Tell me what you know."
"I'm awake and you're not pancakes.”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“Don't mistake me for a friend because I sometimes choose to be friendly," said the Luidaeg.”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“Hope can be cruel, but giving up is worse,”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“That was sort of like being in someone else's nightmare, only no one was naked and there were no lobsters on the walls.”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“I need a drink," she said, voice muffled by her hands. "And then I'm going to need a drink for my drink, so the first one doesn't get lonely. Fuck it, just give me the bottle and walk away.”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“If anyone was going to get themselves murdered to guarantee they would remain the center of attention, it would be him.”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“Ever cater a banquet for royalty? . . . Well, don't. It's awful. Just awful. -- Madden”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“Faeries are real. Magic is real. My tendency to greet dangerous situations by plunging in headfirst and seeing how long it takes to get myself covered head to toe in blood is also real.”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“No matter how much time we spent together, parts of my world would always be as alien to him as parts of his were to me. That was oddly comforting, and gave me the strength I needed to do what had to be done. “You?”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“This isn't an army marching on the Mists. This isn't a case you have to solve. It's just a bunch of nobles coming to puff their chests out at each other an try to look important. Do what I do. Bring popcorn.”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“After months - after years - of chaos and life-threatening situations and people stabbing me for no good reason, we'd somehow managed to find a moment to breathe. That didn't just deserve to be enjoyed. It deserved to be celebrated, held up as proof that the world was a good place and didn't actually need to be destroyed in order for me to have a nap.”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“Some days it’s not worth crawling out of the shallow woodland grave, I swear. “Be”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“It wasn’t easy, but like I’ve always said, if you can’t lie to yourself, who can you lie to? The food”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“They looked like alcoholics trying to choose between an AA meeting and a bender.”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“Anyone who says the past was perfect is a liar and wasn’t there.”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“The same thing that always happens,” I said. “We were having a perfectly nice evening until it got ruined by a corpse.” Her smile was full of teeth. “Oh, good,” she said. “I was worried that it was something serious.”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“Understanding my own mind doesn’t stop it from hurting me.”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“I never asked myself whether children should be protected: I knew the answer. They should be protected for as long as they could be, for as long as our shoulders could bear the weight of the world, because innocence was so fragile, and so easily destroyed.”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“She sounded petulant as only the young ever could.”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“I heard the quaver in her voice, and realized she wasn’t calm, no matter how she might seem: she was frozen, gripped by the sort of shock I hadn’t been able to feel for years.”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“Faerie genetics don’t follow rules so much as they obey vague suggestions, at least when they feel like it.”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“Her voice was barely a whisper. It was the loudest thing I’d ever heard.”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“graceful arrogance comes easily to the feline.”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“yeah, my dad was human. He was a good man, and I’m proud to be his daughter. My mother, on the other hand, was Firstborn. So unless you call the First of your race Mommy or Daddy, I think my breeding is better than yours.” Verona”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“I wondered how much time they'd spent practicing entrances like this one, smoothing away their rough edges and rendering them brief but potent expressions of effortless grace. I decided to stop thinking about it, and just be grateful that there was no circumstance, however, unlikely, that could put me in their place.”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“I was born and raised in San Francisco, which explains my willingness to stay in a city that's historically been full of people who insist on trying to kill me at the slightest provocation.”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith